Frontiers in PsychologyJuly 28, 2026Hercules Morais, Débora Regina de Aguiar, Matheus Hissa Lourenço Ferreira et al.
BackgroundMindfulness-based artistic–contemplative interventions, including auditory “sound pills,” have increasingly been investigated using neurophysiological measures such as electroencephalography (EEG) to promote psychological well-being and attentional regulation. However, the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying these interventions remain poorly understood.MethodsThis pilot,...
BackgroundSelf-esteem and gratitude are important psychological constructs associated with children’s socio-emotional development and well-being. Previous studies have suggested that yoga may be associated with emotional regulation, attentional stability, and prosocial functioning. However, few studies have examined whether participation in school-based yoga programs is associated with changes...
Frontiers in PsychologyJuly 22, 2026Nina Zech, Martin H. J. Busch, Veronika K. Jaeger et al.
Introduction Mind-body interventions (MBIs) increasingly used in health care include alterations in the ordinary state of consciousness that might be essential for their effects on psychological and physical patterns encoded in the unconscious. Little is known about the effects of repeated practice or the time of the repetitions. Methods EEG-derived Bispectral-Index (BIS) is clinically used to...
Background Anxiety is one of the most prevalent global mental health disorders, with its incidence having risen substantially since the COVID-19 pandemic and remaining elevated in the post-pandemic era. According to the process model of emotion regulation, mindfulness may serve as an early-stage cognitive change strategy that enhances emotional stability and ultimately reduces anxiety. While...
Aim As students are vulnerable to mental disorders, interventions for promoting mental health and well-being are urgently needed. Third-wave behavioural therapy programmes (e.g., ACT and MSC) have shown promising results in addressing these issues. The online health promotion programme SAM was developed in a multistage process using a participatory design with students at the University of...
Background Mindful breathing is a well-established method for inducing relaxation, but anxious individuals often struggle to enter a mindful state. Liuzijue breathing, a traditional Chinese practice involving controlled abdominal movements, low-pitched vocalization, and guided mental focus, may facilitate mindful breathing and enhance its efficacy. This study examined whether combining Liuzijue...
Introduction: Although positive effects of mindfulness-based interventions in schools on children's cognition and behaviors are frequently reported, there is a lack of studies on the association between children's mindfulness and their interpersonal social-emotional competences. The present study addresses this gap by analyzing the association between breath-based state mindfulness,...
Introduction Previous research has demonstrated that individuals’ levels of self-esteem strongly influence how they regulate and protect their self-esteem. However, it remains unclear to what extent these regulatory strategies are shaped by trainable psychological processes such as decentering and self-compassion. Methods Two studies were conducted to investigate the role of decentering and...
Introduction Childhood abuse has a significant impact on adulthood mental health. Many children cope with the threat of abuse through avoidant strategies; however, this adaptation may contribute to the development of depersonalization symptoms and dissociative disorders. In contrast, the development of trait mindfulness, the tendency to monitor present-moment experience from an accepting...
Background Zoletil 50, mixed with tiletamine and zolazepam, a veterinary anesthetic, has increasingly been used as a substitute drug by substance abusers in recent years. Recently, it has been found in China that tiletamine has been added to electronic cigarettes as a stimulant, highlighting the need for further evaluation of its safety. Case presentation A 22-year-old, previously healthy,...
While contemporary psychology focuses on developing a cohesive self for wellbeing, Indian philosophical traditions such as Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism and the teachings of J. Krishnamurti provide a critique of the notion of a fixed self-identity. This conceptual paper compares them at a phenomenological and functional level and relates these comparisons to contemplative neuroscience, particularly...
Space and time are irreducible dimensions of nature—measurable but not derivable from anything more fundamental. Life and experience are here proposed as similarly irreducible dimensions. Together—sometimes referred to as lifeexperience to mark their inseparability—they constitute the dimensional ground from which emerges the Force of Experience—proposed as a candidate fifth fundamental force...
Introduction: Meditation has shown benefits for mental health, yet difficulties may appear when practicing autonomously, particularly in people prone to anxiety or low self-esteem. The POEBRA (Program for Optimizing Self-Esteem and Benevolence and Reducing Anxiety) was developed to facilitate meditation learning through a structured, embodied, guided approach based on Full-Presence meditation....
This article examines whether Jung’s theory of individuation reaches a structural limit that Vijnanvada (Yogacara) Buddhist philosophy can identify and continue. Prior comparative scholarship has mapped Jungian archetypes onto Buddhist categories; this study argues that such approaches conceal a more fundamental asymmetry between the two traditions. The study employs structural-comparative...
According to the Extended Information Theory, conscious vision allows us to know how objects extend into the space they belong to. In this way, consciousness compensates for some of the limitations of Neuro-Computational systems, which handle Point-Like Information. The aim of this paper is to explore the potential links between spatial extension and two other properties of phenomenal...
Mapping the concepts, mechanisms, and processes that give rise to conscious, preconscious, and unconscious experience remains one of the most enduring challenges in contemporary science. Philosophical reflections around consciousness are millennia old, although its systematic empirical investigation is relatively recent, wherein "consciousness science" has become its own discipline within the...
Mindfulness has traditionally been studied as a psychological capacity centered on present-moment awareness and nonjudgmental attention. In the digital age, however, mindfulness is increasingly being reframed as a media-facing self-regulation capacity: it can buffer against technology-related stressors, reshape media consumption patterns, and support healthier engagement in online social...
Where did “we” come from? How did our self-consciousness come to be? This great mystery has puzzled scientists for centuries. Applying representative cognitive behavioral experiments, this study proposes the Mirror-Induced Origination Hypothesis and further conducts a thought experiment to demonstrate that the brain’s conscious reaction was induced in humans’ animal ancestor to undergo illusory...
This paper extends an earlier analysis of the functions attributable to consciousness, applying it to a modular/constitutive model that limits the role conscious sensations are allowed to play in integrative processes operating at scale. The focus is on conscious vision because of the challenge it poses for any theory of consciousness, of how to account for a 2-dimensional perceptual display....
Yan Hui and Zhuangzi have often been read as representing two contrasting traditions of self-cultivation in early Chinese philosophy. Against the background of contemporary concern with psychological distress, this article argues that the Analects and the Zhuangzi illuminate a shared problem: how the heart-mind may be reoriented under conditions of suffering, instability, and attachment....
Background: Guided by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), this study examined whether trait mindfulness and psychological inflexibility and experiential avoidance-related processes, assessed using the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II), were statistically linked to the association between physical exercise and depressive symptoms among college students. Methods: A...
Human consciousness has evolved under the constant pull of terrestrial gravity, yet its role in shaping perception and awareness has received limited theoretical attention. As spaceflight transitions from short missions to long-duration habitation, understanding how consciousness responds to non-terrestrial gravity becomes increasingly urgent. In this perspective, we synthesise behavioural,...
Mindfulness has been widely conceptualized and measured across various fields. With increasing attention to the healthy usage of social media, the present study aims to develop a measurement scale for social media mindfulness, intended to guide users towards purposeful and intentional usage, thereby alleviating the adverse effects on mental health caused by obsessive or addictive use of social...